Issue #79 January/February, 2003

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6  Publisher’s Note 7  Editorial: The attack on Colin Powell prompts questions I’m not supposed to ask 76  Ask Jackie: “Retiring” in the backwoods, canning cabbage, green tomato pickles, grape jelly & grape juice, rolled oats, canned cheese, cleaning up cat puke, and storing eggs 25  Ayoob on Firearms:       Firearms and cold weather considerations 22  Irreverent joke page 48  The gee-whiz! page 39  Book Review Guns Save Lives 80  Letters 86   Advertiser Index 82  Classified ads (pdf) 82  Classified ad form 91-98   BHM anthologies, CD-ROMs, & books 88-89  Order form/Subscription Info 87  The last word:A proposal for ending violent crime For a subscription Call Toll Free 1-800--835-2418

ABOUT THE COVER      This is yet another Jackie Clay photo. Shot from a vantage point that looks down on her homestead, it shows not only the Montana home she’s now living in, it features the garden next to the house where she uses Wallo’Waters to extend her growing season. (See her article, which leads off this issue “Use Wallo’Water and gain a month of growing season,” on page 8.)

FEATURES

Farm and garden 8  Use Wallo’Water and gain a month of growing season   By Jackie Clay 30  Want more fruit from less space? Espalier your trees!   By Rev. J.D. Hooker 40  Preparing garden soil in winter   By Alice B. Yeager 69  Mane and tail tools   By Gary D. Kirchmeier Self-reliance 16  Harvesting the wild: acorns   By Jackie Clay 32  Pemmican: an ideal all-purpose food   By Habeeb Salloum 35  Caring for spices and herbs   By Tom R. Kovach 36  How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less   By Dr. Roger W. Grim, D.C. 44  Sell your home: get a good price and sell it faster   By Jackie Clay 50  Install a mobile, solar powered toilet   By Jeffrey R. Yago, P.E., CEM 63  Preserving fish   By Tom R. Kovach 70  Mountain and winter driving   By Don Fallick Recipes 56  Cracklin’s: an irresistible snack that you can’t stop sneakin’   By Linda Gabris Building and tools 14  A packing crate mini-barn   By Edward King 24  Hingeless gate   By Clay Sawyer 59  Portable fence panels: the homesteader’s friend   By Jackie Clay Making a living 65  There’s money in music   By Don Chance Country living 34  The vanishing outhouse   By Tom R. Kovach 43  Living with wildlife   By Tom R. Kovach